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Katelyn Gadd
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.NET, Heaven Lens, Viramate, WASM spec, JSIL, Grim Fandango Remaster, Escape Goat 2, IMVU, Guild Wars, etc
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They make Jianghu(tm) look very appealing. There are little locations in the world where you get to appreciate the environment alongside a little snippet of poetry.
A low angle shot of a stream running through a grassy plain, with forested hills in the distance lit by a sunset The silhouette of a ruined building being lit by the moon on a cloudy night. Some poetry appears in the top-right corner: From where comes the reed pipe's plaintive tune? All night long, soldiers gaze toward home under the moon.
November 14, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Pet the named kittens in the open world to gain Elegance points ✅
A martial artist petting an orange striped cat
November 14, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Rideable goose mount ✅
A female martial artist elegantly standing on top of a goose. The mount info shows that it has the skills 'pecking non-stop' and 'shape shift'
November 14, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Precocious child sidekick ✅
A small child saying "I'm not talking to you! I'm still mad!" while pouting
November 14, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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If you import a character creation preset from your homies you can pose together in the preview
November 14, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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If you want sliders they've got sliders
Detailed character customization with a billion sliders for things like adjusting the size of your inner upper eyelid
November 14, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Privacy and no AI training 👍
Upload an audio clip to automatically convert it into an initial character appearance. You can then further refine the details to suit your preferences. Once the appearance is generated, the audio clip will be deleted and not be used for any AI training.
November 14, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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And then there's "Smart Customization" which appears to take a voice sample and photo and then customize your character template based on that???
November 14, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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After you pick your body type in character creation the next option is "Elegant" or "Realistic" so you can decide which kind of martial artist you are, and then it shows you a bunch of presets which are *vibes* and *archetypes* not just appearance presets
November 14, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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One of Windblown's best details is that when you get the Sentinel Wings weapon your little dude puts them out like airplane wings while running around outside combat
November 2, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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I know things like collecting bug reports and analytics events are in their wheelhouse, but I don't know how easy it is to actually crunch the numbers afterwards.
October 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Dropbox had an unread notification. The notification said "Dark Mode is here".

Here's what Dropbox's Dark Mode looks like
Dropbox's Dark Mode. It is white.
October 25, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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AI is so good it's scary
A "happy birthday" text message with AI-suggested replies including "Same to you!"
October 20, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Huh, YouTube changed their video player UI again. Now everything is round and transparent
October 14, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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truly hilarious that this is an attempted attack on ai critics. yeah being mean to chatgpt is eugenics. saying sam altman shouldn't be able to steal the entirety of human creative output for profit is genocide. words don't fucking mean anything
if you’re writing a sentence that sounds like eugenics but you go “oh that’s fine to say because it’s not a real person” (whatever that means) you may want to consider what made you okay with saying that
October 4, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Manipulating and deceiving your children has never been easier!
www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
‘My kids are the guinea pigs’ For Saral Kaushik, a 36-year-old software engineer and father of two in Yorkshire, a packet of freeze-dried “astronaut” ice-cream in the cupboard provided the inspiration for a novel use of ChatGPT with his four-year-old son. “I literally just said something like, ‘I’m going to do a voice call with my son and I want you to pretend that you’re an astronaut on the ISS,’” Kaushik said. He also instructed the program to tell the boy that it had sent him a special treat. “[ChatGPT] told him that he had sent his dad some ice-cream to try from space, and I pulled it out,” Kaushik recalled. “He was really excited to talk to the astronaut. He was asking questions about how they sleep. He was beaming, he was so happy.”
October 2, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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People out here calling a game 'remastered' and the text looks like this
A cropped screen capture of the Deus Ex remaster where the text is tiny despite being at a 4k resolution, and the font used has poor readability and is not sharp A nearly unreadable text crop from the same deus ex remastered screenshot where the text is small enough that the individual strokes of the letters blur together
September 25, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Homes in Trails - even in the city - seem to not have running water, despite having both gas and electric stoves...
September 21, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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you could do per pixel lighting with hard cutoffs instead of interpolation, maybe? It worked good for us IMO, though we did exactly one level of falloff
September 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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15 floors is an interesting albeit unfair challenge that requires you to exploit every possible mechanic and stack the deck with every buff you can possibly get. Not sure I'll bother doing it again - you have to retry stages a lot - but worth doing once at least
September 5, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Limbus Company update is difficult, as advertised
The "mounting trials" system in Limbus Company where after every floor you have to select a set of buffs to give to your enemies All of the buffs displayed are horrible and there are like 50 of them, selecting some is mandatory
September 4, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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To ingest the .xml files you can do something like this (screenshot 1) and then the hard part is generating the right mangled names for your members since the mangling rules are a bit weird (screenshot 2, not completely accurate)
private void LoadXmlDocsFromStream (FileStream stream) { var xd = XDocument.Load(stream, LoadOptions.None); var members = xd.Element("doc").Element("members").Elements(); foreach (var member in members) { var mangledName = member.Attribute("name").Value; var summary = member.Element("summary")?.Value?.Trim(); if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(summary)) continue; lock (XmlDocStrings) XmlDocStrings[mangledName] = summary; } } private (string, string) GetMangledXmlKeyForMember (MemberInfo member) { if (member is FieldInfo f) return ($"F:{GetMangledNameForMember(f)}", null); else if (member is PropertyInfo p) return ($"P:{GetMangledNameForMember(p)}", null); else if (member is MethodInfo m) return ($"M:{GetMangledNameForMember(m)}", $"M:{GetMangledNameForMember(m)}({GetMangledXmlSignatureForMethod(m)})"); else return (null, null); } private string GetMangledNameForMember (MemberInfo member) { return $"{member.DeclaringType.Namespace}.{member.DeclaringType.Name}.{member.Name}"; } private string GetMangledXmlSignatureForMethod (MethodInfo m) { var sb = new StringBuilder(); foreach (var pi in m.GetParameters()) { if (sb.Length > 0) sb.Append(','); sb.Append(pi.ParameterType.FullName); if (pi.ParameterType.IsByRef) sb.Append('@'); } return sb.ToString(); }
August 31, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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We did something like this in the Grim Fandango remaster, where we would 'weld' the normals of overlapping meshes together to create smoother looking intersections. It turned out that in most cases if the lighting lacked jarring discontinuities it would all look 'right'. You can see it in these
August 30, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Now this is gaming
A "projection mode" dropdown with options for Orthographic and Perspective
August 25, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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I want to buy a beer for the person who cooked up this diagnostic message. So helpful. Exactly the info I needed to fix the build failure
AsmHelpers.asm.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol CreateNativeToInterpreterCallStub referenced in function InterpreterStub Hint on symbols that are defined and could potentially match: "struct CallStubHeader * __cdecl CreateNativeToInterpreterCallStub(struct InterpMethod *)" (?CreateNativeToInterpreterCallStub@@YAPEAUCallStubHeader@@PEAUInterpMethod@@@Z)
August 19, 2025 at 11:33 PM